Jack Sparkes is the latest on an ever-growing list of exciting players to be produced by Exeter City's academy.

On Saturday, after his exciting debut against Swindon Town, I tweeted how much watching him play reminded me of Ethan Ampadu's first City game in the fact he slotted in seamlessly and did not look out of place.

Obviously, though, Ampadu and Sparkes are completely different types of players, but I feel that this could well be the biggest positive of Sparkes' arrival into the first team.

It is too early to say what role Sparkes will have to play in this City side, with Ryan Harley and Dean Moxey both yet to come back into contention, but he does look another exciting prospect produced by the Grecians.

Ampadu last season won praise for the way he read the game and his calmness under pressure - he is an intelligent player.

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Sparkes is a more of an attacking player and seems to be a livewire, judging by the way he took on the Swindon defence on Saturday, but that is not to say he does not possess the same level of footballing intelligence as Ampadu.

His intelligence against Swindon was evidenced in the way he dropped deep to evade markers and create space, allowing him to turn run at defenders and put them on the back foot.

The reason I say the fact Sparkes and Ampadu being different types of players could be one of the biggest positives for City is because it shows the club are producing intelligent players in different positions, which can only be a good thing.

Like Ampadu, Sparkes is also coming through at a younger age to the players who have come through before them, showing how good the football education at City is getting for younger players.

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It would be easy to fall into the trap of being hyperbolic with praise for Sparkes - after all, he is only 16 and has played just 20 minutes' professional football, but the most telling thing about Saturday was that neither of those facts were evident.

As shown with Matt Grimes, Ollie Watkins, Ampadu and countless others, Paul Tisdale knows how to manage young prospects, and I expect the same to happen this season with Sparkes.

For those outside onlookers who gawped at Tisdale and Jordan Moore-Taylor's proclamation earlier this month that City is now the best club in the South West for young players to come to, the arrival of another talent in the first team means it is getting harder and harder to deny the evidence of this.